# Senior Engagement Manager at Workday

- Company: Workday
- What the company does: Experience a new way to work with Sana and agentic AI from Workday. Backed by Greylock, NEA and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.workday.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: 33 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $129K to $193K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Apply by: 2026-11-12
- Apply: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-IL-Chicago/Senior-Engagement-Manager_JR-0110361
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workday-senior-engagement-manager/

## About the role

​The Senior Engagement Manager will be an expert with the Workday Deployment Methodology while managing large to complex global deployments. In this role, they will use their broad expertise to resolve multiple complex issues in creative and effective ways. They will also support executive level expectations by providing internal recommendations to management, based on field experience, as to how to potentially enhance the Workday Deployment Methodology.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of experience of project management with HCM, Payroll, Financial or Student implementations within medium enterprise, large enterprise, higher education and/or state and local governments
- 5+years of experience implementing Workday, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or similar applications
- Functional domain expertise with HCM and Payroll deployments. Additionally, experience in deployment of Financials product suite is helpful
- Excellent critical thinking, to identify, understand, and generate solutions to problems
- Experienced in executive presence, demonstrating confidence, poise under pressure and the ability to communicate effectively to influence key decision-makers
- Experienced in issue management, including identifying the root cause of issues and implementing conflict resolution techniques